Best Urumqi Tours: Urumqi Xinjiang Tour Packages 2023/2024
Most travelers take Urumqi as the first stop of their Xinjiang Silk Road tours to enter Xinjiang and the last stop to leave considering its advanced transportation of air, train, and highway. Urumqi is the Capital city of Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China, with a graceful meaning “beautiful pasture” in Mongol. Although Urumqi itself doesn’t have too many travel resources around apart from the Tianshan Mountain-Heavenly Lake, the Xinjiang Museum, and the International Bazaar, Urumqi tours are considered as a warming-up of the thrilling Xinjiang adventure tours along the ancient Silk Road.
How to Plan Your Xinjiang Urumqi Tour?
-Urumqi Travel Schedule
1-2 days Urumqi tours are proper for you to catch the essence of this city; if you have 3-6 days in Urumqi, you can consider extending your Xinjiang travel by Urumqi Turpan tours, Urumqi Kashgar tours, Urumqi Dunhuang tours; It’s nice if you have 1-2 weeks because you will have more options: you can take an in-depth photography tour in Northern Xinjiang, and historic expedition tour in Southern Xinjiang or even a full exploration to the whole Xinjiang; looking east, you can link your Urumqi tour with travel to Dunhuang, Jiayuguan, Zhangye, Lanzhou, Xining, and Xian to enjoy a complete China Silk Road tour; looking west, you can extend your Urumqi tours to the five-stan countries to open an incredible journey to central Asia.
– Urumqi Transportation
Urumqi enjoys a powerful transportation wave of flights, trains, and highways to meet different travelers’ condition. Usually, to the nearby city like Turpan, high-speed trains and cars are suggested; to Kashgar, both flights and overnight trains are accessible; to the cities in other provinces like Beijing, Xian, Shanghai, Chengdu, Lanzhou…flight would be the first option.
Our top-recommended Urumqi tours and excursions are as below:

Classic Urumqi Tours
Our Urumqi Classic Tours include one-day Urumqi city tours, day tours to the heavenly lake, one-day Urumqi highlights tour, and 3-4 days tours to Heavenly Lake and Southern Pasture. Meaning “beautiful pasture” in Mongolian, Urumqi is the capital city of Xinjiang which will introduce you to the Uighur’s bazaar culture and breathtaking natural beauty in Xinjiang.
Urumqi Kashgar Tours
Our Urumqi Kashgar Tours will offer you the best cultural and natural treasures in two of the most impressive tourist cities in Xinjing – Urumqi, and Kashgar. Ranging around 5-6 days, these tours to Urumqi and Kashgar cover many iconic Xinjiang attractions, including Kashgar Old Town, Urumqi International Bazaar, Heavenly Lake, Karakuri Lake, Id Kah Mosque, Tashkurgan Stone City, etc.
Urumqi Turpan Tours
Looking for short excursions around Urumqi? The following tours with Urumqi and Turpan will offer you some great options. Our local expert guides will escort you to visit the famous Karez Well, historical Jiaohe Ruins, iconic Sugong Pagoda, mysterious Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, lively Xinjiang International Bazaar, picturesque Heavenly Lake…
Urumqi Dunhuang Tours
Want to take a short trip from Urumqi to Dunhuang? A 4.5-hour high-speed train ride will make your idea come true. Our Urumqi Dunhuang tours range from 2 to 4 days, including in-depth explorations of the sacred Heavenly Lake, stunning Mogao Grottoes murals, camel experiences at Echo Sand Mountain & Crescent Spring, and a gourmet tour at the Shazhou Night Market.
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What Our Customers Say

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October 26, 2020
I selected 2-days private tour with excellent tour guide Noble Liu. He shared with me a lot of details from Chinese history and culture, even introduced me in person to lucky man who found the Terracotta army...more

Tinyatlas01
October 26, 2020
We did our own private tour and had the best time! Can’t recommend this service more! Starting from initial communication, to follow up questions, to back and forth detail trip planning, to the actual trip, this team gave us full service and attention ... more

zielaray
January 18, 2020
Thank you to Sophie very helpful and also thank you to Shasha our tour guide with good knowledge the history of Xian. We stay at Holiday Inn Express, very comfortable hotel and clean. Our hotel near to Muslim Quarters, easy to find halal food... more

Malerieeew
December 5, 2019
Great tour! A bus was on time to pick us up from our hotel and drove us to each destination. Noble was our tour guide and he not only provided information on each attraction, but was also able to answer any questions we had (we had a lot!)... more

Suzy
December 7, 2019
We booked 3 tours and our bullet train tickets with China Xian tours. We worked with Grace in the office before we arrive in China. She was fantastic answering our questions and getting back to us in a timely manor and making recommendations... more

Sandy
January 15, 2020
Completely turnkey tour by Grace. Everything is planned for you. Perfectly planned from transportation, food, hotel, touring. Outstanding English speaking guide, Tim. I would definitely request him. He has an incredible... more

vitrianisamudra
January 8, 2020
I have had a wonderful day trip to Xi'an from Shanghai, all arranged by China Xi'an Tour including hotel pick up and transfer back, flights and lunch. My guide named Mr. Coffee took us to terracotta warriors, ancient city wall, halal food lunch... more

faizolmusa
January 1, 2020
Ms. Grace (travel consultant) was very helpful in arranging the best trip for me and my family in Xi'an. The tour guide, Mr. Joe and the driver too were both very friendly and helpful to us. As we are travelling with 2 young children... more

richard5187
December 13, 2019
The tour guide assign to us was very knowledgeable on the history of the places that we had visited and that was very important to us as this trip was mainly to expose our 2 boys to appreciate the Chinese history. more